Rachel Shahan

Email: rshahan@ucla.edu

Publications:

Vukašinovic N, Hsu CW, Marconi M, Li S, Zachary C, Shahan R, Szekley P, Aardening Z, Vanhoutte I, Ma Q, Pinto L, Krupar P, German N, Zhang J, Simon-Vezo C, Perez-Sancho J, Quijada PC, Zhou Q, Lee LR, Cai J, Bayer EM, Fendrych M, Truernit E, Zhou Y, Savaldi-Goldstein S, Wabnik K, Nolan TM, Russinova E. Polarity-guided uneven mitotic divisions control brassinosteroid activity in proliferating plant root cells. Cell. 2025 Apr 17; 188(8):2063-2080.e24. view on PubMed

Birnbaum KD, Brady SM, Gallagher KL, Jung J, Pourquié O, Scheres B, Shahan R, Sozzani R, Strader L. Philip Benfey (1953-2023). Nat Plants. 2024 10; 10(10):1436-1438. view on PubMed

Grones C, Eekhout T, Shi D, Neumann M, Berg LS, Ke Y, Shahan R, Cox KL, Gomez-Cano F, Nelissen H, Lohmann JU, Giacomello S, Martin OC, Cole B, Wang JW, Kaufmann K, Raissig MT, Palfalvi G, Greb T, Libault M, De Rybel B. Best practices for the execution, analysis, and data storage of plant single-cell/nucleus transcriptomics. Plant Cell. 2024 Mar 29; 36(4):812-828. view on PubMed

Rogers CD, Amemiya C, Arur S, Babonis L, Barresi M, Bartlett M, Behringer R, Benham-Pyle B, Bergmann D, Blackman B, Brown CT, Browne B, Camacho J, Chabu CY, Chow I, Cleaver O, Cool J, Dennis MY, Dickinson AJ, Di Talia S, Frank M, Gillmor S, Haag ES, Hariharan I, Harland R, Husbands A, Jerome-Majewska L, Koenig K, Labonne C, Layden M, Lowe C, Mani M, Martik M, McKown K, Moens C, Mosimann C, Onyenedum J, Reed R, Rivera A, Rokhsar D, Royer L, Rutaganira F, Shahan R, Sinha N, Swalla B, Van Norman JM, Wagner DE, Wikramanayake A, Zebell S, Brady SM. Pluripotency of a founding field: rebranding developmental biology. Development. 2024 Feb 01; 151(3). view on PubMed

Nolan TM, Shahan R. Resolving plant development in space and time with single-cell genomics. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2023 12; 76:102444. view on PubMed

Nolan TM, Vukašinovic N, Hsu CW, Zhang J, Vanhoutte I, Shahan R, Taylor IW, Greenstreet L, Heitz M, Afanassiev A, Wang P, Szekely P, Brosnan A, Yin Y, Schiebinger G, Ohler U, Russinova E, Benfey PN. Brassinosteroid gene regulatory networks at cellular resolution in the Arabidopsis root. Science. 2023 03 31; 379(6639):eadf4721. view on PubMed

Hsu CW, Shahan R, Nolan TM, Benfey PN, Ohler U. Protocol for fast scRNA-seq raw data processing using scKB and non-arbitrary quality control with COPILOT. STAR Protoc. 2022 12 16; 3(4):101729. view on PubMed

Shahan R, Hsu CW, Nolan TM, Cole BJ, Taylor IW, Greenstreet L, Zhang S, Afanassiev A, Vlot AHC, Schiebinger G, Benfey PN, Ohler U. A single-cell Arabidopsis root atlas reveals developmental trajectories in wild-type and cell identity mutants. Dev Cell. 2022 02 28; 57(4):543-560.e9. view on PubMed

Shahan R, Nolan TM, Benfey PN. Single-cell analysis of cell identity in the Arabidopsis root apical meristem: insights and opportunities. J Exp Bot. 2021 10 13; 72(19):6679-6686. view on PubMed

Shahan R. Editor profile: Siobhan M. Brady. Plant Cell. 2021 05 05; 33(3):441-444. view on PubMed

Shahan R. Tempting Fate: A Guanylate-Binding Protein Maintains Tomato Fruit Cell Differentiation. Plant Cell. 2020 10; 32(10):3047-3048. view on PubMed

Shahan R. It's All in the Neighborhood: SHORTROOT-Mediated Intercellular Signals Coordinate Phloem Development in the Root. Plant Cell. 2020 05; 32(5):1350-1351. view on PubMed

Shahan R. The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway: DELLA-Interacting GROWTH REGULATING FACTORS Mediate Plant Growth in Cold Stress. Plant Cell. 2020 04; 32(4):797-798. view on PubMed

Shahan R, Benfey PN. A Co-opted Regulator of Lateral Root Development Controls Nodule Organogenesis in Lotus. Dev Cell. 2020 01 06; 52(1):6-7. view on PubMed

Shahan R. Father Knows Best? Small RNA Pathway Controls Endosperm Response to Paternal Genomic Dosage. Plant Cell. 2019 07; 31(7):1425-1426. view on PubMed

Shahan R, Li D, Liu Z. Identification of genes preferentially expressed in wild strawberry receptacle fruit and demonstration of their promoter activities. Hortic Res. 2019; 6:50. view on PubMed

Shahan R. The Future is Now: Gene Expression Dynamics at Single Cell Resolution. Plant Cell. 2019 05; 31(5):933-934. view on PubMed

Shahan R, Zawora C, Wight H, Sittmann J, Wang W, Mount SM, Liu Z. Consensus Coexpression Network Analysis Identifies Key Regulators of Flower and Fruit Development in Wild Strawberry. Plant Physiol. 2018 09; 178(1):202-216. view on PubMed

Darwish O, Shahan R, Liu Z, Slovin JP, Alkharouf NW. Re-annotation of the woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) genome. BMC Genomics. 2015 Jan 27; 16:29. view on PubMed

Kang C, Darwish O, Geretz A, Shahan R, Alkharouf N, Liu Z. Genome-scale transcriptomic insights into early-stage fruit development in woodland strawberry Fragaria vesca. Plant Cell. 2013 Jun; 25(6):1960-78. view on PubMed